Character of the week

This week's character is another favorite of mine.

Benjamin Jackson Raswel

He appears in "The Adventures of a Pirate" a four book series. I am currently writing book three.

Benjamin at age fifteen when he started his adventures

 A more confident Ben.

Year the first book takes place: 1730

Name: Benjamin

Middle Name: Jackson

Last Name: Raswel
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: grayish/greenish/blueish

Age in the first book: fifteen

Pirate name: Blacksam

Ship: The Black Storm

Books: "The Black Horizon" "Lost Treasure" "The Black Storm" "Pirates of Crescent Island"
Genre: Pirate Fantasy

Favorite Color: Sea Blue
Skills: Swordfighting, also the uncanny knack to get himself into painful situations.

Personality: INFP
Siblings: Matthew, Thomas, James, Philip, Margret and Lucy (Ben is the third youngest)
Parents: Benjamin and Margret Raswel (Yes they have the same names as two of their kids)

First book he was ever in: "The Black Horizon"

First time he was introduced: (I already edited the book a million times, so this paragraph wasn't in the story originally, so it it isn't really the first time he was introduced)

The day had begun with a relentless heat. Sweat ran down my face and soaked through my shirt making it itch. My older brother Philip pounded at the forge with a hammer and sang a sea shanty at the top of his lunges. My arms ached from pumping the bellows, but my ears hurt worse. Philip's voice was far from pleasing. Thomas, another one of my brothers, was swinging a finely made cutlas in the air. He would occasionally join in the chorus. I found his voice no more pleasing then I found Philip's voice.

~The Black Horizon

Ben is from a long line of pirates, but he doesn't approve of piracy and it was a terrible shock to him when he discovered the truth about his father. But by the second book it doesn't seem to bother him anymore. But he does still retain a sense of right and wrong. He pays for the ship he stole, even though he did find out the other person had originally stolen it from Ben's father.

Drawn by Rosie.

At fifteen Ben was branded with the blackmark causing his life to be ruined.

At Sixteen Ben played his archenemies twisted treasure hunt in exchange for his brother's life.

At Seventeen Ben hunted the terrible pirate Hunter known as the Shark.

At Eighteen Ben adopted his younger cousin, Jim.

Oh and a lot of other things happen too, but that would spoil the books.

~E